I would say that AI is becoming much more effective for the tokens produced. I have been running Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next on my new PC. This AI model weighs in at 120b parameters, with another 50b added via an Engram table that costs about an extra 20% in RAM for its parameter count. This is a major jump in world knowledge, and the model in question has 262k context length.

While experimental and with rough edges, this model has been able to use Lingua Gacha to undertake a game translation project - understanding and converting a Chinese game into English.

Agentic AI has become practical on local hardware over this last year, and there looks to be much more refinement to come.

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What we are seeing with Anthropic and the other American companies, is a scramble to protect themselves from the consequences of badly planned data centers and poor practices in AI development. Their Chinese competition has produced much more efficient models, while delivering almost the same level of quality as American offerings. This means that local AI is becoming “good enough”, which makes data centres and AI subscriptions unnecessary for many businesses if they distrust the cloud.

This sums up my opinion of the manosphere…

This sort of radical thinking about economics needs to become the norm. The old ways just aren’t good, and would lead us back to here even if we somehow reset capitalism.

Bad or good, we need to try out a lot of seemingly weird ideas to get to a truly better place.

I think there should be an absolute cap on liquid wealth and assets. Stocks, bonds, houses, vehicles, properties, all part of the asset pool.

IMO, we should rework the economic system outright - to ensure no one can be wealthy, and to take away incentives to be rich beyond a point. For example, arresting people who have too much wealth, and confiscating their wealth heavily, leaving them with up to half of the wealth caps.

We should aim for a society where everybody is within the same ballpark of agency. Not too poor, nor rich. Just able to live a good life, without trampling on humanity.

I just KNOW that RFK Jr hungers for Jimothy…poor little fellow would be RFK’s white whale. 😥

“The remnants of our armies have finally caught Mr. Bezos and Elon, and they are here tonight to fight for their lives!..get ready to throw your shivs into the arena, elders and children! Our people died for this wonderful day to happen!”

…That is the GOOD ending to 2028. 🤨

In 2027, a roll of toilet paper is worth 100 cheeseburgers. Be sure to use your lucre to buy a bidet.

…actually, I should stockpile some TP. Canada ain’t gonna supply us anymore. Off to CostCo I go…

I think this sort of project is a thing that all governments should adopt. These products set a baseline for affordability and performance, against which commercial competitors would have to compete against. This essentially creates a more ideal capitalism, without requiring direct pricing controls.

Also, the government providing baseline products is good for the important part of the economy: getting realworld stuff done. Cargo can’t move itself, and we want people to minimize the amount of energy and time spent doing everything. By freeing up time and money, people can use these resources for raising family, forming bonds, and engaging in hobbies.

Nations should work towards ensuring that all their citizens can live their best lives.

I know where the meat comes from. I know this guy called Mitch, and he doesn’t need it anymore…

Savings. Helped run a business, until they divorced from the owner, about 15ish or so years ago.

The firefighters were necessary, and falls of this nature kept happening at an increasing pace. That parent, simply isn’t able to walk safely anymore - and they have a stubborn streak of not asking people to help them. This residence I am in, also has many hoarded items of that parent, that are not allowed to be thrown away.

Fortunately, they are now in a elderly care facility.

I suppose most folks would consider my breaking point to be unwarranted.

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About four or so years back, a parent fell over. They are heavyset, requiring firemen to be lifted off the floor. They were nude, so I asked the fire department to send same-gender fighters, if that can be reasonably done. My parent threatened to have me thrown out of the household, out of embarrassment.

While that ultimately didn’t happen, it was a great breach of trust for me. I don’t have enough of an income to survive without a home, and quite frankly, I will take my life if I can’t enjoy it. Far as I am concerned, the threat of homelessness and poverty, isn’t much different than having a gun to my head.

I realized that this parent, like the other one, didn’t love me. The affection I held for them was fading over the years, but this is what broke the chain for me. I don’t love them anymore - they are like a rock or any random thing. They just exist. I won’t hurt them, but I also stopped going the extra mile. I ceased patrolling to check on their health, nor did I try to cook real meals or ask if I should fetch restaurant food for them. I simply made TV dinners at the appropriate times, and didn’t speak to my parent anymore.

My relationship was simply one of going through the motions.

You can use RUFUS to install Windows, and preemptively remove restrictions. MASGravel lets you activate Windows once you got an internet connection. ShutUp10 for configuring your privacy, and also for uninstalling AI stuff. I recommend the premium version if you want ShutUp10 to automatically revert Microsoft’s meddling after updates.

I recommend MASgravel’s Windows Enterprise 25h2 GAC .iso for your RUFUS, it has the right balance between debloat and still being usable by a typical person.

Hopefully my personal router isn’t being used by the ISP for this sort of thing. Odds are, they probably just do it, because capitalism is sucktackular by default.

Nope. I never really got into phones. The only reason I bought my smartphone, is because society demanded it. You can’t access many things without one.

My first and only smartphone is an iPhone 16, all the previous cellphones were cheap dumbphones for about $20. If possible, I prefer using email and a PC browser, because desktop computing is my natural habitat.

Phones suck. I have to pay a subscription for something that I don’t like using, and barely touch most weeks.

IBM supplied the computing machines for the Holocaust, I wouldn’t be surprised if Google is giving cloud computing to ICE.

If they actually have age divided portions of their platform, where adults are free to make adult content such as history, reviews of hentai, and so forth, I am all for it. Youtube sucks because it doesn’t treat the audience or creators as adults, and often changes the rules at the drop of a hat.

Personally, I am guessing it will fall to Peertube and other fediverse platforms to offer genuine freedom for people, but I wouldn’t complain if Bili breaks the camel’s back known as Youtube.

Use Media Player Classic instead. It is still being maintained.

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema

I ebay’ed my DDR5 RDIMM 5600 RAM sticks. 32gb was $606 some months ago, the remaining six sticks was about $3,600 bucks. I was originally planning on waiting for bubbles to burst and DDR6 to be released before switching to a DDR5 platform, but the whole war with Iran threw everything into doubt.

The US’s strategic oil reserve will likely run out within half a year, which means everything costing more. I wanted to be smart with my money and wait for a good time to buy, but this situation has ruined my planning. I bit the bullet and used a flex-pay to let me buy now.

Is it that my discipline sucks, or is the world certain to go into a hellish handbasket? I cannot tell anymore…

Capitalism as we know it, isn’t about effectiveness nor efficiency, it is primarily about power. So long as this remains the case, workers will continue to be abused for the amusement of the higher ups.